Here's a short video about the making of the 2008 Adopt-a-River Sculpture!
Monday, August 25, 2008
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Back in the Day Rent Party Tonight!
Come support TAWU this evening from 8pm-1am!
An adult evening of Music Dance and FUN!
Featuring R&B, Funk and Soul Music from the 60’s and 70’sRefreshments too!
*Dance Contest - Do all the old Dances
*Costume Contest - Dress for the times
This party will be sponsored by the TAWU Artist Group and contest winners will receive original artwork from the artists.
$10 at the door
Your Place or Mine
1832 Columbus Avenue
Minneapolis
(Parking Across the Street)
Featuring R&B, Funk and Soul Music from the 60’s and 70’sRefreshments too!
*Dance Contest - Do all the old Dances
*Costume Contest - Dress for the times
This party will be sponsored by the TAWU Artist Group and contest winners will receive original artwork from the artists.
$10 at the door
Monday, August 18, 2008
Northern Exposure
Rabi will be participating in this exhibit. Stop on by!Northern Exposure
An Exhibition of Twin Cities Contemporary Art
Highland Bank Court
811 LaSalle Ave
Minneapolis, MN 55402
August 23-September 7, 2008
Exhibition Hours
11am-3pm
8pm-11pm
11am-3pm
8pm-11pm
Opening Reception
Saturday, August 30th
7-10pm
Saturday, August 30th
7-10pm
Music by Cazadores with David Monson & Paul Miksic
Sunday, August 10, 2008
The Industrious Cooperative Ant
The Great MN Get-Together (ie MN State Fair) is starting soon. I can't give you a sneak peak of the sculpture yet (I haven't even seen the final product), but here's the text for the artist's interpretive panel:
Commissioned by Minnesota DNR as a tribute to 75,000 volunteers who have removed over five million pounds of rubbish from Minnesota’s public waters since 1989.
Sculptor Rabi Sanfo has combined artistic talent with technical and engineering skills, and has received high praise at recent sculpture contests. He has participated in exhibitions around Minnesota as well as Chicago, Illinois. One of his pieces has even found its way to India. As Rabi has described his work, “By the magic of bending, grinding and welding, I try to give inspirations a form, an expression and a touch of life so when I get lost in deep contemplation, I feel like they are living.” Rabi has described this year’s sculpture as follows:
“During the Great Mississippi Riverboat Cleanup (June 12, 2008), many people cleaned the river as a community. Cleaning the Mississippi riverbank in Lilydale, near downtown Saint Paul, my group removed a rusting, half-buried wheelbarrow. It reminded me of an ant’s head. Underneath the piece there were ants. At this point, I knew I would be creating an ant for my sculpture. I chose every piece after I found the wheelbarrow to help build the ant, including a gas cylinder and a steel pot. Ants live in community and build everything in this community in an organized way. If people did the same, the environment would be better.”
“When these pieces are garbage along the river, people don’t’ like them. Once you put them together and create something, people like them. In my home country of Burkina Faso (West Africa), people do not throw things away. They always try to find a way to repair items or they transform them into other useable objects. They reuse everything, down to nails and screws. This has inspired me to do found-object art here in the United States, combined with my metal sculptures. When I create found object art, I talk to the parts and tell them that I am giving them a new life, a life where people are going to like them, instead of having them sit somewhere in a landfill or on a riverbank.”
The materials for this work, except for the supporting structure, have been gathered from rubbish removed both in the riverboat cleanup and a large flood plain cleanup in Belle Plaine, along the Minnesota River (southwest of the metro area).
Commissioned by Minnesota DNR as a tribute to 75,000 volunteers who have removed over five million pounds of rubbish from Minnesota’s public waters since 1989.
Sculptor Rabi Sanfo has combined artistic talent with technical and engineering skills, and has received high praise at recent sculpture contests. He has participated in exhibitions around Minnesota as well as Chicago, Illinois. One of his pieces has even found its way to India. As Rabi has described his work, “By the magic of bending, grinding and welding, I try to give inspirations a form, an expression and a touch of life so when I get lost in deep contemplation, I feel like they are living.” Rabi has described this year’s sculpture as follows:
“During the Great Mississippi Riverboat Cleanup (June 12, 2008), many people cleaned the river as a community. Cleaning the Mississippi riverbank in Lilydale, near downtown Saint Paul, my group removed a rusting, half-buried wheelbarrow. It reminded me of an ant’s head. Underneath the piece there were ants. At this point, I knew I would be creating an ant for my sculpture. I chose every piece after I found the wheelbarrow to help build the ant, including a gas cylinder and a steel pot. Ants live in community and build everything in this community in an organized way. If people did the same, the environment would be better.”
“When these pieces are garbage along the river, people don’t’ like them. Once you put them together and create something, people like them. In my home country of Burkina Faso (West Africa), people do not throw things away. They always try to find a way to repair items or they transform them into other useable objects. They reuse everything, down to nails and screws. This has inspired me to do found-object art here in the United States, combined with my metal sculptures. When I create found object art, I talk to the parts and tell them that I am giving them a new life, a life where people are going to like them, instead of having them sit somewhere in a landfill or on a riverbank.”
The materials for this work, except for the supporting structure, have been gathered from rubbish removed both in the riverboat cleanup and a large flood plain cleanup in Belle Plaine, along the Minnesota River (southwest of the metro area).
Thursday, August 07, 2008
Gallery Grooves Tonight!
Gallery Grooves
Pan African Fest Art & Jazz Party
Join us a for a special Gallery Grooves - The Pan African Fest Art & Jazz Party at Altered Esthetics Gallery. This is the an official event of the Twin Cities Pan African Music Festival and will feature art by Rabi, the latest international group exhibit at Altered Esthetics "The Revolution will not be Televised," live music and good conversation.
Altered Esthetics
1224 Quincy Street NE
Minneapolis, MN
Thursday, August 7th
7-9pm
7 p.m. Drums and Art Ensemble
8 p.m. Jazz and World Music by Guitarist John Penny
8 p.m. Jazz and World Music by Guitarist John Penny
Friday, August 01, 2008
Loring Park Art Festival This Weekend!
Hope you can join us at the Loring Park Art Festival! Festival goers will enjoy two days of art provided by 140 artists that have been juried into the festival to assure high quality artwork in all media. Art at the festival includes; oil painting, watercolors, handmade paper, sculpture, textiles, photography, glass, ceramics, jewelry, mixed-media, wood, printmaking and more. There are a variety of price ranges with the goal being “something for everyone.”
In addition to art, visitors will enjoy family events, food, music and unique entertainment around the walking paths and ponds of Loring Park—an idyllic setting for an outdoor art festival.
Loring Park
Oak Grove Street and Hennepin Avenue
Minneapolis, MN
Booth #138
Saturday, August 2nd @ 10am - 6pm
Sunday, August 3rd @ 10am - 5pm
Friday, July 25, 2008
FLOW this Saturday
FLOW down West Broadway to see Northside visual and performing art for the whole family. Art-making activities...drill team and dance performances...human chess game...art-in-real-time...street performances...Let it FLOW: Talent Show finals...live music...and art installation with over 100 Northside artists!
FLOW is a celebration of all that is great on the Northside...the talent and aspirations of our young people, the wisdom and insight of our elders, the beauty and depth that comes from our artists, the rhythm and vibrancy of our music...and the power of transformation that is underway in our community.
Bean Scene
2220 West Broadway
Minneapolis, MN 55411
July 26, 2008
4-9pm
Monday, July 21, 2008
Armageddon: The Last Stand
Rabi was awarded Second Place and Scrappy's Choice in the Small Sculpture Category at the 8th Annual American Iron Metal Sculpture Competition, which is part of the 2008 Minneapolis Aquatennial celebration.
As part of the competition, all artists have 1 hour to select their materials from the grounds of American Iron.
The sculpture will be on public display Tuesday and Wednesday, July 22nd and 23rd, on Nicollet Mall in front of the IDS Crystal Court (717 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis). All entries will eventually be posted on the American Iron site.
Please stop by the IDS Crystal Court from 10:30am-6pm if you get a chance or visit our photo gallery for more pictures of the piece.
As part of the competition, all artists have 1 hour to select their materials from the grounds of American Iron.
The sculpture will be on public display Tuesday and Wednesday, July 22nd and 23rd, on Nicollet Mall in front of the IDS Crystal Court (717 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis). All entries will eventually be posted on the American Iron site.
Please stop by the IDS Crystal Court from 10:30am-6pm if you get a chance or visit our photo gallery for more pictures of the piece.
Rabi with "Armageddon: The Last Stand"
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Stone Arch Interview
Thanks everyone for the great weekend at the Stone Arch Festival! Be sure to check out Rabi's interview on Channel 5 KSTP. The hits of the weekend were his larger pieces including the Neanderthal, Spinny Bird and Spider.
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